One of the most frustrating things about these elections, is the absolute denial by people (who are pro Secretary Clinton) of what is going on in them. We have had massive rigging and manipulation, electioneering by a former President who happens to be married to one of the candidates, voter disenfranchisement, the disappearance of votes, unwonted changes in voter registration, the changing of votes cast by machine programming, unbelievably long voting lines, the unexplained failure of candidate Sanders to appear in ballots in certain areas, the lack of enough ballots by noon in certain other areas, and other disasters which make the entire process suspect.

Whatever candidate you will vote for ultimately, THIS IS NOT the way to run a presidential election, and it SHAMES this country and all the people who died to guarantee that we could all vote, or the people such as my paternal grandmother, Inés María Merino de Brandon, who campaigned and protested for the rights of women to vote.

I have been studying Hillary Clinton for more than two decades. I was born in Cuba and am a peace and social justice activist for more years than I care to remember. I practiced law for 28 years, speak four languages, am a retired college professor and writer, and regularly get arrested for causes of peace and social justice, including immigration, nuclear weaponry, and war. I am getting ready to publish a book about the secretary, and why she is such a terrible choice for president. The negative things, as you Hillary supporters call them, are Hillary’s history, and it is sad that the country is being bamboozled by big money and by a very corrupt electoral system, of which the Democrats and Republicans are but two sides of the same coin.

Someone responded to me recently that if all the things that are posted about Hillary Clinton were true, she would be in jail already. But what I say to that is, she is a multi-millionaire; the judicial system (flawed as most everything else in the Empire) favors them over the rest of us. And Hillary has long sold her favors for very expensive speeches and corporate donations. Her mentor, his Royal Darkness Henry Kissinger, has now been adjudged a war criminal and cannot land in certain countries, but we in the US are clueless, and he is still getting invited to speak at events. Perhaps if the Hillary supporters studied the history of this country, you might learn more about these issues. Until you do that, please do not post inanities and ill-founded opinions. As I have told many students over years of teaching: Go back to your books, do your homework, study, damn it!